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Mike Jacovides @jacovides.bsky.social · 18h

We’re planning a conference on associationism and its history, and we're calling for papers. Let me or Javi Gomez-Lavin @jglavin.bsky.social know if you’re interested philevents.org/event/show/1...

Third Meeting of the Association Association

The Association Association is a group of philosophers working on the history and current applications of associationist ideas about the nature of the mind, including the range of ...

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Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social · 1d

My word but the BBC used to make some really good programmes. Here on the BBC iPlayer you can get Bryan Magee's 1987 'The Great Philosophers' series, where you can (as I currently am doing) watch Sydney Morgenbesser talking about Peirce, James and Dewey.

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

The Great Philosophers - Series 1: 13. The American Pragmatists

Bryan Magee and Sidney Morgenbesser discuss the work of the American pragmatists CS Peirce, John Dewey and William James.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 5d

Check out the schedule of the online conference PSA Around the World Eastern Europe (pm of Nov 6,14,22). A collaboration between @philsci.bsky.social and @eenphilsci.bsky.social it showcases #philsci from, about, and otherwise connected to the region. Wonderful names and titles, looking forward!

www.philsci.org

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Simon Glendinning @simonglend.bsky.social · 6d

Have you seen The Colossus in the Prado? If you have, then among those you should thank is my dad. It’s his birthday today. Do read a crucial contribution by him that came out a year after he died. He did not live to see it exhibited again. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Time to Re-open the Debate about the Reattribution of Goya's Colossus?

In 2008 the Prado Museum took the decision to remove from the Goya canon a well-known painting, long accepted by specialists as an authentic work by the artist, generally called El Coloso (The Colo...

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 5d

Enjoyed writing this short but sweet [altho not necessarily in message] piece for @projectsyndicate.bsky.social w @irisvanrooij.bsky.social:
> While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype & stolen intellectual labor

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Project Syndicate @projectsyndicate.bsky.social · 5d

Tech companies want us to outsource all cognitive labor to their models. Instead, academics must defend universities by barring toxic, addictive AI technologies from classrooms, argue @olivia.science and @irisvanrooij.bsky.social .
bit.ly/48FNcJj

AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education

Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.

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Martin Kusch @martinkusch.bsky.social · 7d

Beyond Vienna. -- The elementary school in Trattenbach where Wittgenstein taught in the early 1920s. #Vienna #photography #photographyOnBlueSky #Austria #philosophy

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Sophie Loy-Wilson @sophieloywilson.bsky.social · 7d

Reading list on Chinese philosophy used by Chinese Australians in Sydney in 1934

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 8d

Really enjoyed & honoured to be part of the Critical AI Literacy Symposium yesterday. Also @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social & @miquelpt.bsky.social (and others) spoke about their wonderful work too. Big thanks to @irisvanrooij.bsky.social, Leo & Barbara for organising. ✨

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxyg...

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Rebeka Ferreira @philobitch @philosop-her.bsky.social · 8d

job-opportunity-at-university-of-leeds-lecturer
#philsky #academicsky #edusky

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Lecturer/Associate Professor in Philosophy | Ellen Clarke

We are hiring! We're looking for someone who does some area of social philosophy that isn't ethical/political. Eg metaphysics, epistemology, logic or language. https://lnkd.in/eCCZx8bQ. Please spread ...

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Angela Potochnik @apotochnik.bsky.social · 8d

This review in Public Understanding of Science puts Melissa Jacquart's and my recent short book, Public Engagement with Science: Defining the Project, in conversation with a recent introduction to science communication.

You can get a PDF of our open access Element here: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Science Communication: The Basics & Public Engagement with Science: Defining the Project

Review by Felicity Mellor

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Extending New Naratives @ennhistphil.bsky.social · 12d

The philjobs link is here, FYI:

philjobs.org/job/show/29994

#philsky

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Center for PhilSci @center4philsci.bsky.social · 13d

Don’t miss our Annual Lecture Series with Angela Potochnik!

📅 Tomorrow, October 10th
⏰ 3:30pm EDT
📍 CL-1008

Title: "Causes Don’t Push"

Can't make the talk? Join on Zoom: https://pitt.zoom.us/j/94976944388

#ALS #CenterPhilSci

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Janet D. Stemwedel @docfreeride.bsky.social · 15d

My department is hiring! Tenure-track assistant professor in philosophy (AOS: philosophy of technology) jobs.sjsu.edu/en-us/job/55...

San José State University - Details - Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Technology

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The HOPOS Journal @hoposjournal.bsky.social · 15d

The new Editor in Chief of #HOPOS, Matthew J. Brown, sets out his vision for the future of the journal in a new #openaccess editorial. It is "part manifesto, part call for papers, part love letter to one of my favorite ﬁelds of study."

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

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Ellie Robson @philosophellie.bsky.social · 21d

Hilda Oakeley was the (acting) Head of Department at King's College from 1925-30 and Head of Department in 1931. @kingsphilosophy.bsky.social

Read more about her in this 2015 blog written by Emily Thomas:
feministhistoryofphilosophy.wordpress.com/2015/07/20/i...

Introducing British idealist Hilda Oakeley – a guest post by Emily Thomas

It is with great pleasure that I introduce our first guest post. Its author, Emily Thomas, is a postdoc at the University of Groningen where she currently holds a Netherlands Research Council (NWO)…

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 21d

#Postdoc at U. of Vienna in philosophy of science, with focus on scientific modeling, interdisciplinarity &/or philosophy of engineering, w/ Prof. Tarja Knuuttila. English & German language proficiency required.
Deadline: Oct 9th
#philsci

jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

University Assistant postdoctoral, in the research area of Philosophy of Science

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 21d

Before he was murdered by a fascist Schlick was working on a far ranging version of this idea (sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2016/12/schl...). I also agree, fwiw. I see little hope of persuading people of this!

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Louis Doulas @louisdoulas.bsky.social · 22d

*Officially* out today: Susan Stebbing: Analysis, Common Sense, and Public Philosophy. I’m grateful to my co-editor, Annalisa Coliva, and all our excellent contributors! Link in bio. (Find the volume’s introduction on my website 😈.)

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Aristotelian Society @aristotsoc.bsky.social · 23d

This is happening tonight! Join us for the Inaugural Address 2026-5 by Lucy O'Brien (UCL) #philosophy #philsky

Aristotelian Society @aristotsoc.bsky.social · Sep 18

Join us for the first Proceedings of the 2025-6 year! Lucy O’Brien (UCL) Inaugural Address: Duddington and Our Awareness of Others’ Minds

📍Chancellors Hall, Senate House
⏰ Monday 29 September. 18.15-19.45, followed by drinks reception
🔗 www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedi...

#philosophy

Lucy O’Brien – The Aristotelian Society

www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 26d

Looks like the Department of Philosophy at Stanford has a second open rank faculty position open to all areas of philosophy
Stanford University
31 Oct 2025 11:55 PM PT
#philsci #philsky #philjobs

Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Open Rank Professor of Philosophy

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 27d

#PhilJobs Dept Philosophy @ Stanford University
AOS: Philosophy of Physics (understood broadly to include all physical sciences, complexity, etc.), Philosophy of Science
AOC: Open
Open rank: tenure-track Assistant Prof, tenured Associate Prof, or Full Prof
Deadline: November 1
#PhilSci #philsky

Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Open Rank Faculty Position in Philosophy of Physics

facultypositions.stanford.edu

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Michelle Liu @michelleybliu.bsky.social · Sep 23

My department is advertising a permanent T&R position in non-Western Philosophy. I genuinely think I have the best job in the world. Do apply if you want to be in a fantastic department! Also Australia is great. Happy to answer any questions. philjobs.org/job/show/29770

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer - Philosophy, Monash University - PhilJobs:JFP Lecturer/Senior Lecturer - Philosophy, Monash University

An international database of jobs for philosophers

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 21

Getting close to 50k views and I'm wondering is it just everybody is scared to say this and pleased I did? Because if there's so many of us who agree, trust me I'd know if 1k people disagreed with me let alone 50k, why are we letting AI ruin our universities?

Together we can turn back the tide.

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 6

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

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Louis Doulas @louisdoulas.bsky.social · Sep 19

It’s here! My volume on Susan Stebbing (co-edited with Annalisa Coliva). Out in print at the end of this month! academic.oup.com/book/60791?l...

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · Sep 19

A fantastic kickoff tonight of the Boston Network for History & Philosophy of Physics, organized by @miguelohn.bsky.social & featuring talk by Peter Galison on his work with the Black Hole Initiative. #HPS ⚛️

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